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Why we get fat and what to do about it
Why we get fat and what to do about it
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Taubes, Gary
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Body & Soul 613.712 TAUBES
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Subjects
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Etiology
Food habits
Health & Fitness
Low-carbohydrate diet
Nonfiction
Obesity
Obesity -- Etiology
Weight loss
Table of Contents
From the Book - 1st ed.
The original sin
Biology, not Physics
Why were they fat?
The elusive benefits of undereating
The elusive benefits of exercise
The significance of twenty calories a day
Why me? Why there? Why then?
Thermodynamics for dummies, part 1
Thermodynamics for dummies, part 2
Head cases
Adiposity 101
The laws of adiposity
A historical digression on "lipophilia"
A primer on the regulation of fat
Why I get fat and you don't (or vice versa)
What we can do
Injustice collecting
Why diets succeed and fail
A historical digression on the fattening carbohydrate
Meat or plants?
The nature of a healthy diet
Following through.
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Taubes, Gary
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9780307474254
9780307272706
9780307595515
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